Shabby Chic Designing by Isabella

Today is Shabby Chic Day where we kitties get to show our pawesome shabby chic decorating skills. This event is sponsored by the Master at shabby chic designing, Alfie and his mentor Milo at The Cat's Meow. I haven't decorated as much as they have but I thought I'd show my abilities as a shabby chic designer too...

I must admit, I'm pretty proud of my work...

I do my best work in the middle of the night so no one sees me in action and it's taken quite awhile to get it purrfect but it's turning out very shabby chic-y...

I'll just have to figure out what to decorate next once I get this one just right!

Hope your Monday's not too shabby!

Isabella

Friday Features

Today is Friday Features with a twist! The twist is that it's all about my shop, BeadedTail! The current Etsybloggers blog carnival gave the two choices of:

1. It's Summer time! Tell us about your upcoming or current Summer inspired designs!
2. Where, when or who did you learn your handmade craft from?

Well, I thought I'd combine both of these items today for my Friday Features. I'll begin with #2... I learned how to make beaded jewelry from my mom in the summer of 2007. She had taken a class in beading in Las Vegas and when she came for a visit she taught me and I loved it! Since then I have taught myself how to do several other things and continue to learn new techniques when I can. My mom is now working with fabric and things not as tiny as beads but she's still a creative help to me. As an accountant my mind works better with numbers than with being creative so beading is not always easy for me but it is always fun!

Now onto my current Summer inspired designs. My first item is actually inspired by our furiend Duke and today is his 3rd birthday so he'd love it if you stopped by his pawty!
Duke - Westie Dog Ceramic and Black Onyx Beaded Sterling Silver Earrings

How can I not be inspired by summer flowers?

Lily - Fuschia Flowers and Deep Purple Swarovski Crystal Antiqued Brass Earrings
Milo and Alfie's mom inspired these earrings when she asked about some green cat earrings. Angel and Isabella helped me put together several green cat earrings and this was one of the results...
Shamrock - Shiny Kitty Cat and Green Glass Beaded Sterling Silver Earrings
I just love purple and these cat focal beads so came up with this necklace recently too...
Violet - Purple Polymer Clay with Black Kitty Beaded Antiqued Bronze Necklace
I have several other ideas mulling around in my head - it just takes awhile to get them out! Anyway, hope you enjoyed my features from my shop, BeadedTail, today!

Friend, Foe or Food?

Whenever Mommy and Daddy go to the coast, they see lots of seagulls but so far have only brought home one seagull fevver and of course photos of them.

We never understood why they didn't bring home a seagull but then we heard that Milo Marshall told his little brofur Alfie the other day that seagulls are VISHUS and would eat him for dinner!

Milo was in the doghouse yesterday so it must not be true. We sure hope not cause they look very tasty friendly and since there's two of us, we can handle a little ol' seagull.

Okay, maybe they aren't so little but vishus? What do you think?